Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses

Artist:Paul Cézanne (French, Aix-en-Provence 1839–1906 Aix-en-Provence)
Date:ca. 1890
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:28 3/4 x 36 3/8 in. (73 x 92.4 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951
Accession Number:51.112.1
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 826

Cézanne rarely painted flowering plants or fresh-cut bouquets, which were susceptible to wilting under his protracted gaze. He included potted plants only in three still lifes, two views of the conservatory at Jas de Bouffan, his family's estate, and about a dozen exquisite watercolors made over the course of two decades (from about 1878 to 1906). Cézanne seems to have reserved this particular table, with its scalloped apron and distinctive bowed legs, for three of his finest still lifes of the 1890s.

This painting was once owned by the ardent gardener Claude Monet.

Provenance

[Julien-François (père) Tanguy, Paris]; Paul Helleu, Paris (until 1894; sent as a gift in late March via Durand-Ruel to Monet); Claude Monet, Giverny (1894–d. 1926); his son, Michel Monet, Giverny; [Paul Rosenberg, Paris]; [Bernheim-Jeune, Paris and Knoedler Galleries, Paris and New York]; Adolph Lewisohn, New York (by 1929–d. 1938); his son, Sam A. Lewisohn, New York (1938–d. 1951)

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